Guess what? Our ERA workshop has just been accepted into #ALIFE2026 !
This will be a valuable opportunity for emerging researchers in #ALife, and we'll have more information for you soon. 👽🛸
In the meantime, see you at @alifeconf.bsky.social ! 🍁
Submissions for #ALife2026 workshop, tutorial, and spec.session proposals are now closed. Thanks for the great response! Decision letters will be sent soon, and accepted sessions will appear on the website.
👉 2026.alife.org
Reminder: the deadline for full papers and extended summaries is March 30.
Preparing your proposal for @alifeconf.bsky.social ? Join us for our next Social Town Hall on March 7th!
We'll have a co-work session to get everyone encouraged while working on their submissions for #ALIFE2026!
Bring a friend, bring a question. See you there!🌱
Preparing your proposal for @alifeconf.bsky.social ? Join us for our next Social Town Hall on March 7th!
We'll have a co-work session to get everyone encouraged while working on their submissions for #ALIFE2026!
Bring a friend, bring a question. See you there!🌱
1/📢 Announcing our next ERA Journal Club session
📍Feb 28, 4:00 PM GMT on Discord: discord.gg/m3qvuXgkZ7
Topic: Evochora, an open-source lab for embodied digital evolution. 🧬🧱
Project: github.com/evochora/evo...
Demo: evochora.org
#ALife #Evolution #Evochora
Nominate for the ISAL @isalofficial.bsky.social Awards! 🏆
The awards will be presented at this year’s #ALIFE2026 conference in August in Waterloo.
Deadline: March 8 (Self-nominations welcome).
Do you know a student who has published an amazing paper? A veteran professor you admire? Nominate them to win an #ISAL 2026 Award! 🏆
Winners will be announced at @alifeconf.bsky.social ! Want to know more? Check out the form and submit it by March 8 AoE!
#ALIFE2026
forms.gle/bkd4ireJSSUc...
📣 Extended Deadline: #ALIFE2026 – Call for Workshops, Tutorials & Special Sessions
We are pleased to announce an extended submission deadline: 28 February 2026.
🗓 Aug 17–21, 2026
📍 Waterloo, Canada
Join us in shaping a diverse & interdisciplinary programme.
2026.alife.org
5/See also
A personal story, how Evochora came into existence: github.com/evochora/evo...
A more scientific view on the motivation and the capabilies of Evochora: github.com/evochora/evo...
4/Discussion topics:
• What should digital physics include for meaningful open-ended evolution?
• How do thermodynamic constraints shape ecology and complexity?
• Do approaches like Fuzzy Jumps help evolution or change what's being selected for?
Intrigued? See you there! 👽🛸
3/Why it’s cool? #Evochora came from classic #ALife pitfalls: Grey Goo chaos → add digital physics (energy/entropy) for stability; brittle mutations → “Fuzzy Jumps” to smooth the landscape so evolution can adapt. It offers modular and traceable runs you can analyze in Python/R!
2/ #Evochora is a platform built for long-term #ALife experiments, a combination of deterministic digital physics + custom virtual machine where code is spatially embedded (instructions occupy space), and rules like thermodynamics (energy/entropy) can be configured via plugins. 👾
1/📢 Announcing our next ERA Journal Club session
📍Feb 28, 4:00 PM GMT on Discord: discord.gg/m3qvuXgkZ7
Topic: Evochora, an open-source lab for embodied digital evolution. 🧬🧱
Project: github.com/evochora/evo...
Demo: evochora.org
#ALife #Evolution #Evochora
📣 #ALIFE2026 Call for Workshops, Tutorials & Special Sessions at the Conference on Artificial Life, themed “Living and Lifelike Complex Adaptive Systems.”
🗓 August 17–21, 2026 | 📍 Waterloo, Canada
⏰ Deadline: 20 Feb 2026 (AoE)
1/📢 Announcing our next ERA Journal Club session
📍Jan 24, 4:00 PM GMT on Discord: t.co/z5667BBLvr
Paper: “Origins of life: the possible and the actual” by @ricardsole.bsky.social et al. Join us to explore fresh frameworks for #ALife and #Abiogenesis !
Remember that this Saturday we're holding the ERA Journal Club session, where we'll be discussing a paper bridging the gap between the "actual" historical origin of life on Earth and the "possible" range of alternative, artificial, or extraterrestrial lifeforms. Don't miss it! 👽
Remember that this Saturday we're holding the ERA Journal Club session, where we'll be discussing a paper bridging the gap between the "actual" historical origin of life on Earth and the "possible" range of alternative, artificial, or extraterrestrial lifeforms. Don't miss it! 👽
3/Points to discuss at the JC: Which universal constraints are most testable now? What minimal combo of info + metabolism + compartments yields evolvability? How can we detect life-as-we-don’t-know-it without Earth-centric bias?
Bring a friend, bring a question. See you there! 🌱
2/What this paper asks: Is life inevitable or contingent? How do energy, matter and information co-evolve into evolvable protocells? It surveys constraints, candidate pathways, and open challenges across geochemistry, systems biology, and of course, Artificial Life. 🦠
1/📢 Announcing our next ERA Journal Club session
📍Jan 24, 4:00 PM GMT on Discord: t.co/z5667BBLvr
Paper: “Origins of life: the possible and the actual” by @ricardsole.bsky.social et al. Join us to explore fresh frameworks for #ALife and #Abiogenesis !
Join us today at 4:00 p.m. GMT on our Journal Club (Discord channel) to discuss the paper “Self-organizing neural networks in novel moving bodies: anatomical, behavioral, and transcriptional characterization of a living structure with a nervous system.” 🧠
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Looking for plans this weekend? Join us to discuss Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of Frankenstein, the original novel by Mary Shelley! 📽️🧟📖
The meeting is Dec 6th at 8 PM (UTC) on our Discord channel. Not there yet? Click here. 👇
discord.gg/NV9DS6km
#ALife #Frankenstein
Looking for plans this weekend? Join us to discuss Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of Frankenstein, the original novel by Mary Shelley! 📽️🧟📖
The meeting is Dec 6th at 8 PM (UTC) on our Discord channel. Not there yet? Click here. 👇
discord.gg/NV9DS6km
#ALife #Frankenstein
Everyone! ERA needs you! Join our 2025/2026 board in this month electrons!
You don't need experience, we are here for you to learn!
We will need a Communication Chair, ISAL rep, Conferences Chairs, Vice DEI, and a Digital Chair!
Just nominate yourself in #electrons channel
discord.gg/JbKDJD3KZ
ALife 2025 was amazing this year! Thank you all for attending ERA events!
Find all ERA events on the website:
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#alife2025
Remember the ERA lighting talks workshop on Monday!
Join us with your talk, faster than the blink of an eye, quicker than lighting!
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This year ERA collaborates with KOIN (Kyoto Open Innovation Network)!
We will deliver to you 6 short lectures during lunches on Monday, Thursday, Friday (2 each day - one from ERA, and one from local startup).
So stay tuned!
KOIN share.google/AJUQjNFbI62i...
Hello science enthusiasts, techies and artsy folks! 👋
We have science talks, introduce key people in ALIFE with an industry expo & for art lovers we display community art & demo show 🤩🎊To attend the events and the conference sessions get your in-person public tickets now! 🎟
We put a lot of effort into creating this year’s MiniCon with lots of exciting talks! The best of it - it is free for everyone! So if you are in Kyoto this Sunday please sign up and join 🙂↕️
#ALIFE2025 #ERA
